Mobtown bedrack question

Anyone on here have the newer bed rack by Mobtown? I’m really interested in grabbing one but I’d like to see some pics of the rack, specifically the upper rail and lower mounting points. Should I be concerned about dynamic load abilities?

 

No. Why would you be concerned?

 

Here are some pictures.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/lets-see-some-softoppers.277644/page-258#post-22911075

 

First, let me say, I love your rack design. I’m not in any way questioning your quality. My concern is how the dynamic load is carried down to the bed rails. Let’s just say 200 lbs of side loading from the top. How does the weight/energy get absorbed? Or should I ask, “where”? It looks like the aluminum cross bars are carrying the load and distributing to the vertical bars. It appears you put 3 small gussets on the upper rails to help distribute the weight and energy into the vertical tubes. The Tubes then are secured to the bed with Bolts (which again, I love the idea). What structure in the rack is preventing the rack from sideways motion? (Dynamic)? It seems like the bars up top leave a large moment/arm for a wiggling up top. Please Tell me how wrong I am and that I’m crazy and I have nothing to fear and there’s no way it would fail under a set amount of weight. I want this rack.

 

The original design was pretty much as you described. Even so, I’ve been running that original design for 2 years now daily driving it with an RTT (Tepui Autana 4...it’s a big b*tch) and taking it on a dozen offroad trips. It’s pretty robust. I’ve been trying to treat it poorly. Despite that, the new design helps distribute the lateral loads to the bed rails better. You don’t have anything to worry about (unless you are trying to carry 500lbs of water in a half filled tank...then I’d worry).